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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mary Jane say Morrigan is in relation to the baby Mary Jane is holding?
(a) The baby's aunt.
(b) The baby's older sister.
(c) No relation.
(d) The baby's great aunt.

2. What is something that would clue humans in to the fact that the Taltos are not human?
(a) The way the Taltos can regenerate body parts.
(b) The Taltos' hair colors.
(c) The birth ritual.
(d) The Taltos' eye colors.

3. What can hasten a human woman's pregnancy with a Taltos child?
(a) A witch performing an intricate ceremony.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A certain herb.
(d) Singing and reassuring the child.

4. How did the Taltos view monogamy?
(a) Some chose it and some did not.
(b) Ash does not mention the concept of monogamy.
(c) It was unheard of among them.
(d) It was the only way the Taltos legitimized their coupling.

5. What is one thing the Taltos hated about their new home off the island?
(a) The noise of the human cities.
(b) The fighting among the humans.
(c) The cold winters.
(d) The smell of the human cities.

6. What can witches recognize on sight concerning the Taltos?
(a) Whether the male Taltos is able to have children since most of them cannot.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Whether the female Taltos is pregnant with a human child.
(d) That a person is a Taltos.

7. Who do Stuart's notes implicate?
(a) Marklin and Tommy.
(b) Just Marklin.
(c) Rowan and Michael.
(d) Ash.

8. What instructions does Mona give Mary Jane?
(a) What to say to Ash.
(b) What to say to Rowan.
(c) What to do in case Mona dies.
(d) What to do in case Morrigan and she die.

9. What do Ash and other Taltos eventually realize about humans?
(a) They would have to all be killed.
(b) They had much to offer.
(c) They hated for no reason.
(d) They could mate with Taltos.

10. How do the "Little People" arise?
(a) From the mating of a Taltos with an elf.
(b) From the mating of a Taltos with a human.
(c) From the mating of a human with an elf.
(d) No one knows for sure.

11. What happens to Taltos women who gave birth too often?
(a) They become insane.
(b) They die.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They become barren.

12. What does Ash take from the Catholic church?
(a) Restitution for the attack.
(b) The advice to move elsewhere.
(c) Lessons.
(d) Holy orders.

13. Why do the humans burn Janet at the stake?
(a) For cursing God.
(b) For killing a priest.
(c) For being pregnant by a human.
(d) For not accepting Christianity.

14. What does Marklin realize when he and Tommy are in a large room with other members?
(a) Nothing in particular.
(b) Tommy has disappeared.
(c) Marklin is being ignored.
(d) Marklin and Tommy are the only novices.

15. Where does Mary Jane suggest they go?
(a) Fontevrault.
(b) Back to the Mayfair estate.
(c) To find Rowan.
(d) To find Ash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mona tell Mary Jane they will have to do?

2. To what does Ash compare the birth of a Taltos child?

3. Why is Mona having trouble walking?

4. For how long does coupling last with two Taltos?

5. What do the humans who live near the Taltos village ask the Taltos?

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